With water costs and demand increasing worldwide at an incredible pace and availability decreasing at an alarming rate, there has never been a greater need for practical "hands-on" coverage of water auditing and loss reduction techniques.
Water Loss Control Manual examines every aspect of water loss and provides simple, effective, tested solutions.
Water Loss Control Manual includes coverage of:
- The nature and scope of water loss occurring in water distribution systems
- How to assess loss conditions of any system by using a water audit and computer models to identify losses
- How to implement interventions to control real losses
- Mapping tools and techniques
- Leak detection, repair, and response time
- Managing pressures and pressure-related problems
- Pipe rehabilitation and replacement
- How to implement interventions to control apparent losses
- Meter testing, repair, and replacement
- Billing system analysis and rectification
- Reduction of unauthorized use
- Demand control and water conservation
- How to perform cost-to-benefit calculations
- Field equipment
Ideas and references collected from around the world make Water Loss Control Manual a particularly versatile guide, valuable in a wide variety of situations.
Numerous tables, diagrams, charts, graphs, photographs, and basic explanations present information in a quick-read, easy-to-digest format and make Water Loss Control Manual immediately usable to all readers no matter what their level of expertise.
Contents:
- Introduction: Water Supplied and Water Lost
- Understanding the Types of Water Loss
- Traditional and Progressive Approaches to Water Loss: The Experiences of the United States and England
- Evaluating Water Loss: Using Water Audits and Performance Indicators
- Data Formatting and Management
- Equipment and Techniques: Flow Metering, Pressure Measurement, Control, and Leak Detection
- Modeling Water Losses
- Completing the Audit and Determining Cost to Benefit
- Potential Solutions for Controlling Water Losses
- Reducing Real Losses in the Field: Active Leakage Management
- Speed and Quality of Leak Repair
- Pressure Management
- Pipe Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Replacement
- Resolving Apparent Losses
- Water Efficiency Programs
- Using In-House Staff or a Contractor and Designing a Bid Document
- Understanding Basic Hydraulics
- Articles and Case Studies
Appendix A: Water Accountability
Appendix B: Meter Installation and Testing
Appendix C: Types of Flowmeters
Appendix D: Demand Profiling for Optimal Meter Sizing
Appendix E: Pipe Properties
Index
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